ICA - Midsommar in Arabic / Midsummer explained - (2012) :30 (Sweden)
You should be familiar with the ICA campaign by now. Stig here is the owner of the local ICA, and in this particular ad he is hell-bent on explaining the phenomena of Midsommar (midsummer with wonky Swedish spelling) to our friends and neighbors. That's why he's doing it in what I presume is terrible Arabic.
"At midsummer, the Swede will eat outside. No matter what the weather is like" this is true, and more often than not, it's raining. Still we got all these funky paper plates so we are eating outside goshdarnit.
Stig continues: "Lots of people will nap at the table" - translation, we get hammered.
"Then everyone dances 'Little frogs'" -- bonus Ikea translated this crazy song to German in an ad once.
And last but not least: "Don't be surprised if you wake up at the neighbors". It happens.
He ends with wishing us a happy midsummer in both Swedish and arabic. And that concludes ICA-Stigs midsummer-school for today. There are others variants, with languages like Chinese and Polish, but since they are dubbed we're only posting the Arabic one where our favorite ICA actor is doing his best to attempt to speak it. How is he doing?
Ad agency: KING
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- Hilarious
2 days 17 hours ago - What is the name of the music
3 days 5 hours ago - צור קשר עם קוקה קולה ישראל
4 days 11 hours ago - אני רוצה ששמי יהיה על בקבוק
4 days 17 hours ago - Name Asaad
Coca cola
Thankz
4 days 17 hours ago - What, no pitchforks and
5 days 8 hours ago - Worth it for your dream
5 days 8 hours ago - I could care less about the
5 days 9 hours ago - Okay, it may be hokey in some
5 days 22 hours ago - What is the name of the song
1 week 1 day ago


Åsk.... his arabic ain't awful (i could understand him)
Really? How fun! He is an old-school actor of the classically trained sort (theatre) so he should know a thing or two about copying spoken word (as in accents). Still, Arabic, that's pretty impressive, there's a lot of sounds in that language which Swedish never utilises.
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